opinionWednesday, October 7
Today's opinion pages are less about policy and more about character. Rafael Behr's takedown of Zack Polanski is the sharpest piece of the day, questioning what happens when a leader goes quiet in a crisis. A quieter piece on liberal identity offers a contrasting vision of principled clarity.
The day's most consequential piece is a sharp critique of a leader who went missing when clarity mattered most.
Behr argues Polanski's silence during a toxic internal debate over anti-Zionism wasn't neutrality, it was a failure of leadership. The piece is getting wide coverage because it names a pattern, not just a person.
A personal manifesto offers a quieter counterpoint: a definition of liberalism rooted in autonomy and representation.
A straightforward definition-of-self piece that stakes out liberal democracy's non-negotiables: bodily autonomy, free speech, representation. It's a useful marker for where the center is drawing lines right now.
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